Category: SharePoint 2010

As Office for Mac 2011 was released I was was a wide-eye boy to the possibilities it might hold. Now that is has been out for a while lets take a look at how the new version of Word for Mac works with SharePoint 2010.

Mac and SharePoint Series: Can I Open that Document﻿? Working around SharePoint I get many questions as to why I would even bother with a Mac. My answer to them is simple… I work with what ever tools best suit my needs…. Does this mean that Macs are the best platform for SharePoint administration? The answer is a resounding NO!!!! […]

In my previous post ‘Adding Active Directory Accounts to SharePoint’ I outlined how you can first create AD accounts then add them to SharePoint 2007. Since the AD portion still stays the same this will outline how to add users to your SharePoint instance.

This was such a great piece of complied work I wanted to post it here for informational purposes. All credit goes to Richard Harbridge at Richard Harbridge: Insights. The original link is: SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010.

An odd issue happened when I tried to configure SharePoint 2010 Excel services with the new MySites. I uploaded a test Excel workbook and tried to open it, but I kept on getting the following error. An error, which I might add, was very non-descript “The workbook cannot be opened.”

Part of being an administrator in SharePoint is you have to able to navigate solutions packages. While I won’t get into all the details of what a solutions package is and does for SharePoint, suffice to say that they will add functionality to your SharePoint site. In our example I’ll use the Codplex MiniCalendar Web Part. When you download this […]

Something that has brought about confusion is how to configure the Web Listener in Forefront 2010 for SharePoint. As opposed to normal websites that use some internal authentication method SharePoint requires a unique approach to how TMG listens and routes the web service. Among these is how you configure your web listener for the SharePoint sites. This is what a […]